Advice for a Price (aka-Snavley, the Crooked Politician)
The Green Hornet targets a fraudulent insurance-advice racket that charges victims for information they could obtain freely, while the gang claims to know the Hornet's secret identity.
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The Green Hornet targets a fraudulent insurance-advice racket that charges victims for information they could obtain freely, while the gang claims to know the Hornet's secret identity.
The Green Hornet attacks Robertson’s gasoline racket after a train wreck is used to shift blame onto the masked vigilante.
The Green Hornet targets a racket that uses stand-ins to cheat citizenship exams, then blackmails vulnerable immigrants with the fraud the racket itself arranged.
The Green Hornet goes after Grafton’s child-labor scheme, which exploits children by putting them on the streets selling handkerchiefs.
A political fixer named Michael uses his influence over the parole board to release men for a racket controlled by businessman Leggett. When one of the paroled men becomes dangerous,…
The Green Hornet uncovers a property-tax-office check-kiting scheme after corrupt supervisors frame an innocent employee for their theft.
A trust-fund scheme turns deadly when Palmer and his partner Michael murder Grayson and try to keep the stolen money and blame away from themselves. The Green Hornet plays the…
Political appointees Johnson and Leggett turn General Hospital purchasing into a kickback racket, taking money from supplier Robertson while Dr. Wakefield is threatened and pushed out for opposing them. The…
A ring of professional claimants stages pedestrian accidents, throwing themselves in front of cars and using crooked legal help to collect damages from frightened motorists. The Sentinel's investigation draws retaliation,…
A corrupt politician decides to confess and expose his associates when he realizes his own son is following the same criminal path.
A so-called writers' bureau flatters amateur authors, charges them fees for 'polishing' manuscripts and guarantees publication only by printing tiny excerpts in its own magazine. After Axford is taken in,…
Crandall, a witness who can expose a murder ring, is being hidden by a rival newspaper while an imported gunman searches for him. The Green Hornet traces both sides to…
The Green Hornet pursues evidence that the state sales-tax commissioner has cooked the books and diverted a large sum from public funds.
The Green Hornet takes on politician Finney and a graft scheme exploiting the W.P.A., using the murder case to expose the corruption behind the racket.
The Daily Sentinel and the Green Hornet expose the head of a mental hospital who has turned the institution into a source of state-treasury graft.
Police chief Ritter boasts that organized gambling has been wiped out, but the Sentinel suspects he is protecting Frankie's reopened gambling operation. The Green Hornet engineers a smoke-and-fire alarm that…
Neighborhood druggist Ferris is threatened into joining Mr. Big's Big Four racket. The Green Hornet removes Ferris before the gang can act against him and uses the resulting search to…
When the Sentinel checks on families it helped the previous Christmas, Britt notices a disturbing pattern: several households are suddenly comfortable, and in every case the husband has gone to…
The Green Hornet fights a vote-buying and election-fraud operation in an effort to keep a local election honest.
A highway corruption scheme escalates to murder, leading the Green Hornet to expose the politician profiting from the graft.
The Green Hornet breaks up a counterfeiting operation that uses young boys to circulate the gang’s bogus money.
A protection gang extorts fruit and vegetable dealers, demanding regular payments and bombing businesses that refuse. Britt uses a legitimate insurance survey as cover to learn which merchants are being…
A disoriented man named Braley wanders near the Sentinel repeating fragments about a moon, a tree and a shooting, then disappears after being poisoned and removed from the hospital. Britt…
The Green Hornet investigates a manufactured wildcat strike controlled by a hidden criminal organizer and works to rescue a reporter taken by the scheme’s operators.
Cain and Bragg run a numbers racket under the shadow of the mysterious Mr. X, cheating bettors and collecting payoffs through a hollow-tree drop. When victim Mori steals the money,…
A murder and a plan to fix a major horse race draw the Green Hornet into a gambling syndicate’s operation.
The Green Hornet confronts a contractor who uses violence to manipulate city bidding and protects a woman willing to testify against him.
The Green Hornet investigates and dismantles a racket that corrupts the parole system for profit.
City officials boast that illegal gambling has been wiped out, but reopened games are secretly operating under a protection arrangement. The Green Hornet traces the protection scheme and engineers a…
The Green Hornet searches for the insider in the police department who is putting confiscated crime guns back on the street.
After a newly built reservoir fails, the Green Hornet investigates the collapse and uncovers a scheme intended to frame a senator.
The Green Hornet exposes a crooked charity operation while clearing an innocent man who has been framed for embezzlement.
The Green Hornet deliberately takes blame for murder and robbery as part of a plan to keep vital Allied invasion information out of enemy hands.
After a sailor’s careless disclosure compromises wartime information, the Green Hornet races to stop saboteurs from destroying a convoy ship.
A woman’s false murder confession leads the Green Hornet into an investigation of a larger counterfeiting operation.
The Green Hornet uncovers a sabotage plot aimed at destroying a vital power dam.
With his secret identity endangered, the Green Hornet must stop a plot aimed at destroying an important convoy of war materials.
A murdered man’s final clue puts the Green Hornet on the trail of saboteurs planning to destroy the wartime transport ship Mariana.
A lost letter leads Britt Reid to a corpse that disappears before police arrive, sending the Green Hornet into a mystery built around the vanished body and a hidden criminal…
Enemy agents target radar expert George Wallace, first trying to bomb his home and then murdering a captured accomplice before he can talk. The Green Hornet infiltrates the spy ring…
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